$20 million anti-Obama TV blitz begins Monday

Hours after its leaders met with reporters in Washington, D.C., the Republican “SuperPAC” Crossroads GPS announced plans for a $20 million TV attack on President Obama set to begin Monday.

The attack will be launched exactly 497 days before the 2012 presidential election.

Crossroads GPS is the partner of American Crossroads, a group founded by ex-Bush guru Karl Rove after the U.S. Supreme Court removed all limits to campaign spending by corporations and labor.

“The ads will start appearing on Monday and will run on national cable as well as broadcast covering key swing states including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada and Virginia,” Talking Points Memo reported.

As an officially educational entity, Crossroads GPS does not have to — and does not — disclose the identities of its donors.

The group spent $5.5 million in 2010 on TV ads and mailings attacking Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Nobody knew where a penny of it came from. Mailers with a return address on New York Avenue in Washington, D.C., accused Murray of being out of touch with Washington state voters.

Crossroads GPS termed its anti-Obama campaign “a new $20 million issue advocacy initiative initiated over the next two months to frame the national debate on jobs, the economy and the national debt in anticipation of congressional action on these issues.”